Strategic and organizational factors are what separate successful big-company innovators from the rest of the field. Bron: McKinsey April 2015 It’s no secret: innovation is difficult for well-established companies. By and large, they are better executors than innovators, and most succeed less through game-changing creativity than by optimizing their existing businesses.
Bron: HBR, Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, Rory McDonald December 2015 The theory of disruptive innovation, introduced in these pages in 1995, has proved to be a powerful way of thinking about innovation-driven growth. Many leaders of small, entrepreneurial companies praise it as their guiding star; so do many executives at large, well-established
Simon Sinek heeft een eenvoudig maar krachtig model om te komen tot inspirerend leiderschap dat begint met een ‘gouden cirkel’ en de vraag “Waarom?”. Zijn voorbeelden bevatten Apple, Martin Luther King en de Wright Brothers — en als tegenhanger Tivo, dat (tot een recente overwinning in de rechtbank die de
Bron: Harvard Business Review 19 februari 2015 The transition to a global digital economy in 2014 was sporadic – brisk in some countries, choppy in others. By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7, in purchasing power parity terms. Plus, consumers in the Asia-Pacific region were expected to
Bron: Harvard Business Review 10 december 2014 The technologies of the past, by replacing human muscle, increased the value of human effort – and in the process drove rapid economic progress. Those of the future, by substituting for man’s senses and brain, will accelerate that process – but at the risk of
Dit is het slot van het drieluik van David Breugem over de impact van exponentiële technologie op de organisatie van samenwerking tussen mensen. In Goedkope technologie dwingt bedrijven tot innovatie van samenwerking beredeneerde hij dat mensenwerk straks niet meer primair is gericht op efficiëntie, maar bijvoorbeeld op creativiteit, verbinding en het omgaan met paradoxen. De
Dit is het tweede deel van een drieluik over de impact van exponentiële technologie op de organisatie van samenwerking tussen mensen. In dit tweede deel beschrijft David Breugem hoe organisaties hun taakverdeling zouden kunnen verbeteren. Bron: David Breugem Innovatief zijn? Vervang de alleswetende baas! Van een man die leiderschap in- en uitademt
Bron: FastCompany.com “Innovate or die.” Any astute company has heard this before and heeds the warning. But while there are countless books, articles, and tools available to help you do it, there is one crucial facet that we feel makes or breaks any innovation project. We affectionately call this “the
Bron: McKinsey&Company A group of economists, tech entrepreneurs, and academics discuss whether technological advances will automate tasks more quickly than the United States can create jobs. December 2014 The topic of job displacement has, throughout US history, ignited frustration over technological advances and their tendency to make traditional jobs obsolete;
Bron: Harvard Business Review Walter Frick The youngest executive on HBR’s list of the 100 Best-Performing CEOs is Simon Wolfson of Next, at age 46. According to research on age and innovation, even he may be beyond his creative peak. As Ezekiel Emanuel summarized in The Atlantic earlier this year: Dean Keith Simonton, at